i ended up taking my bath last night. very soothing, cleansing. however, it was way past my bedtime when i finally got into bed. it made me a bit snarly this morning, and ch was in a BAD mood, due to his headache and the awful holiday we're having. we're so behind. this year our monday was $900 short of last years, and this year's tuesday was $300 short. we're in good shape for tomorrow- all the orders for tomorrow are made, and there's over 30 cash and carry mugs and vases made up. but it's depressing- either this holiday is going to suck, and all the flowers ch ordered for tomorrow are going to bite us in the ass, or i'm going to be taking 100 orders tomorrow.
on the other hand, i'm glad to have a job where i can say things like "all the flowers are going to bite us in the ass."
i was the one to make the 30 premakes, and i was getting REALLY sick of it by 5. i was hungry and tired and NOT ready to go draft my fucking white model of my set. but ch had been talking all day about seeing if dos hermanos would deliver a tower of margaritas to us, and at the end of the day ch said dinner would be on the business upstairs. so we went up and had dinner and margaritas, and then came back down and knocked out the last of the orders. we were pretty pitiful when we went up there- ch DROPPED his cigarette. i felt that tired myself. but after some food and drinks, we got pretty slaphappy. i'd only had one, so it wasn't being drunk, but i was suddenly feeling alive and having fun. we put on liz phair, and i got to make big arrangements. i'd been making these little mugs all day, a spider mum or a gerber, some alstro, some mums, blah blah blah. foam is fun, and it's fun to use all those little bits of things to make little arangements, but there was stuff i'd been walking by all day that i coudn't use. you can't use tall pointy things in a mug, esp not one with round gerberas or spider mums at the bottom, or it looks really phallic. so i filled up my vases and used all the snapdragons and eremerus i'd been itching to use up all day. i hope ch is in a good mood tomorrow, my mood so depends on his mood. i wish i wasn't so influenced. i wish i could bouy him up when he's feeling down, and i could wallow in my own moroseness when necesary... not really . but i do wish i could cheer him up the way he does me.
anyway, i was feeling all alive walking across the loop- it was 8 by the time, long after the x28 was running, so i walked all the way to state, and pearl was playing just the right mix. even though it's not friday, here it is:
take me out- franz ferdinand
labor of love- frente!
people and tables- sinead lohan
gravel (living in clip)- ani d
scarlet red and blue- zoe
last days of the century- al stewart
underneath it all- no doubt
a poem on the underground- simon and garfunkel
perfect white girls- patty griffin
i know what i know- paul simon
did i tell you about the awesome music i played yesterday while painting? if i did, sorry, but i'm telling it again. when i got there, the TD had some monks on. it was sooooo droney. but he left, and grant asked if i had anything, and i said what i had was very different, and he said they'd been listening to monks or banjos all day. so i put on everything but the girl's walking wounded and it was perfect. and i thought the vibe was good too, and when it was over, danielle asked, who was that? and i told her, and grant said it was good painting music, and danielle said it was sexy. that's what i was going for! i put in no doubt's rock steady next, which wasn't as perfect, but it kept us going. all in all, i'd call it a success. i'll let you know how it goes friday, if i make it painting and what i play.
since i got home early i immediately thought i should call g. then i thought why waste my precious time when i'll see her on friday. so i was gonna type to y'all and watch a movie, but now she's on aim. i'm such a sucker. i'll tell you tomorrow where the conversation goes.
ps, thanks for all the comments, everyone! i'm sorry it's so hard for me to respond via email. someday i'll get my popmail set up. until then, i'm just replying in the haloscan comment box. so if you've left a comment, go back and check on it, and i've probably responded. because i love you all!
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